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Ten Tips For Dealing With Complex Predicaments
Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework This is a bit of a screed against really bad “strategic” plans, which is to say most of the documents that go by that name. Most written plans these days are means to...
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Facing Collapse: Ten Important Questions for the 2020s
Image of Ken Ward in 2016 Valve-Turners action, from the film The Reluctant Radical. It has been a year of terrible news and terrible realizations. A year of justifiable outrage and bewildered...
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Deliberately So
image CC0 from pexels.com Lately I have been enjoying a series of podcasts from a young Toronto-based group called The Stoa. Some of their recent discussions have been about deliberative processes —...
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The Purpose of Work
child labourers, Pennsylvania, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine in the National Archives The word “work” originally meant “what we do”, and came into use around 900 years ago. At that time it was mostly...
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Ensemble
cast members of The Book of Will, OSF version, written by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Christopher Liam Moore, photo by Jenny Graham A British friend, Johnnie Moore, sent me a link to a book called...
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What Makes Your Life Worthwhile?
the three-circle ‘Venn model of Purpose’ from my book, designed to help you find ‘the work you’re meant to do’ Fourteen years ago, Chelsea Green published my first book, Finding the Sweet Spot,...
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Recognizing and Honing Your ‘Information Behaviours’
image referring to the practice of treasuring each unrepeatable moment, from the Next Phase blog Nick Kemp at ikigai tribe just did an extraordinary interview with Yazdan Mansourian,...
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Democracy Without Elections
“We can’t rely on anything anymore. Our economic and political systems seem hopelessly corrupt and broken, beyond repair. We can’t trust what the media are telling us anymore. And now AI is creating...
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Exemplifying and Modelling ‘Teal’
image CC0 from pexels.com I‘m a member of a discussion group around the book Reinventing Organizations and the concept of Teal. The book, and practice, advocates creating organizations that are...
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Speechless
Midjourney’s take on “a disengaged office worker”; not my prompt Last week I was privileged to participate in one of David Gurteen’s long-standing Knowledge Cafés, this one on the subject of “Silence...
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